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Sota Activation – VK1/AC-040 Mt Ainslie

As part of a short family holiday to Sydney and home via Canberra, I was able to fit in one activation. I had dropped the family off at Questacon early on good friday morning, the kids love this place, we spent a whole day at the science centre on wednesday, and they wanted to go back. I was able to grab a couple of hours to get in my activation.

Mt Ainslie is a peak to the north of suburban Canberra, it has a lookout at the top, with parking, a good tourist all the way to the top. The summit is listed as 843m, the sign at the top says 846m.

I parked the car at the top carpark and walked down the road to ensure I was well outside the activation zone. Heading to 800m on the GPS.

Then back to the top to setup and operate. I choose to set up at the lower of the two lookout areas, using the rail to support my squid pole and the ledge as a seat. (better than sitting on the ground at the top of the extra hill)

I connected up the gear on 40m and spotted/called and worked two summit to summit’s before a constant stream of stations over the next 20 mins, before a change to 20m and 3 more contacts, but still no VK6, i need to build my linked dipole, the random wire and Zmatch (essentially vertical isn’t cutting the mustard for vk6), in all, 26 stations worked, the best “worked” count for me on a hill. And as per usual Four Andrews!.. It really is summits of the Andrews! Conditions were good, with everyone an easy contact, my new Mylar ft817 speaker upgrade appeared to make a difference, really helping to lift the voice (and reduce the background noise) it made working stations easy. I had my headphones in the bag, but didn’t need to use them. Worth the $25 i feel. Thanks for all who I worked.

Time

Call

Band

Mode

Notes

00:23z

VK1DI

7MHz

SSB

s2s Ian

00:25z

VK3EK/P

7MHz

SSB

s2s Rob

00:29z

VK1MBE

7MHz

SSB

Andrew!!

00:30z

VK2IO

7MHz

SSB

gerard

00:32z

VK3FPSR

7MHz

SSB

Peter

00:34z

VK1EM

7MHz

SSB

Mark

00:35z

VK1MA

7MHz

SSB

Andrew!!

00:36z

VK1NAM

7MHz

SSB

Andrew!!

00:37z

VK3DET

7MHz

SSB

earnie

00:38z

VK3CAT

7MHz

SSB

Tony

00:39z

VK3FQSO

7MHz

SSB

Amanda

00:40z

VK3UBY

7MHz

SSB

Colin

00:41z

VK2YW

7MHz

SSB

John

00:41z

VK2UH

7MHz

SSB

Andrew!!

00:42z

VK2LAX

7MHz

SSB

Rod

00:43z

VK3AFW

7MHz

SSB

Ron

00:44z

VK5PS

7MHz

SSB

Peter

00:45z

VK3MEG

7MHz

SSB

Steve

00:47z

VK7BO

7MHz

SSB

allan

00:48z

VK2CCJ

7MHz

SSB

Clint

00:48z

VK5LY

7MHz

SSB

larry

00:49z

VK3FOWL

7MHz

SSB

julie

00:49z

VK3HRA

7MHz

SSB

allan

00:57z

VK8GM

14MHz

SSB

Greg

00:58z

VK5NIG

14MHz

SSB

Nigel

00:59z

VK2MCB

14MHz

SSB

Phil

The rest of the short holiday, was all about the food, we lived in Sydney for a number of years, and had a number of favourite restaurant and food places we miss since moving back to Melbourne. So we made sure we took advantage of the trip and visited all our favourite places of old.